Unit 6: Georgia in the Civil War

Northern manufactures supported the Tariff on British goods because they

• A. struggled to compete with British prices.
• B. were trying to hurt the economy of the South.
• C. wanted British merchant to stop buying cotton from the South.
• D. needed to increase the prices of their goods to be higher than British goods.

Maintaining balance between free states and slave states was important because

• A. President Lincoln wanted to maintain balance.
• B. they wanted to maintain balance in congress.
• C. Northern states threatened to declare war if balance wasn’t maintained.
• D. Southern states threatened to not pay federal taxes if balance wasn’t maintained.

Which law set a model for admitting two states at a time: one free and one slave?

• A. Fugitive Slave Act
• B. Compromise of 1850
• C. Kansas-Nebraska Act
• D. Missouri Compromise

During discussions over admitting California as a free state, Georgia developed the Georgia Platform which stated that

• A. they supported California becoming a free state.
• B. they would secede if the Fugitive Slave Act was not included in the law.
• C. they would use popular sovereignty to determine if California would become free or slave.
• D. they would secede unless balance was maintained in Congress by admitting a free state at the same time.

What was the result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• A. Southern states seceded.
• B. South Carolina began a nullification campaign.
• C. Violence at voting polls resulted in Bleeding Kansas.
• D. Northern states were threatened by the pro-slavery Supreme Court decisions.

What was the US Supreme Court’s decision when Dred Scott, a slave, attempted to sue for his freedom? The US Supreme Court determined that he

• A. would be granted his/her freedom.
• B. was lying about living in a free state.
• C. was property, not a citizen, and had no legal right to sue.
• D. had not lived in a free state long enough to be granted freedom.

What event causes the south to secede?

• A. Bleeding Kansas
• B. Dred Scot Case
• C. Election of 1860
• D. Compromise of 1850

Which of the following is NOT one of the causes of the American Civil War?

• A. The north supported states' rights.
• B. Regional differences caused tension.
• C. Economic differences caused tension.
• D. Northerners and Southerners disagreed over slavery.

What was Alexander Stephens opinion about Georgia making the decision to secede?

• A. He argued for secession because he wanted to become Vice President of the Confederacy.
• B. He argued against secession because he was an abolitionist would believed Georgia should end slavery.
• C. He argued for secession because he believed Georgia could not economically survive if slavery was abolished.
• D. He argued against secession because he believed a Civil War would economically devastate the south.

What position was Alexander Stephens to be elected once the South seceded from the Union?

• A. President
• B. Vice President
• C. Secretary of State
• D. Commander in Chief